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RealAvalon

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  1. Issues of rape and consent are never black and white. I was just watching the HBO show, "I Will Destroy You," and one storyline involves a gay man who decided to pursue having sex with a woman just to see if he will like it. He meets a woman and they have a great date and they go back to her place and have sex. After he reveals to her that he is gay and she gets upset with him, saying that she only consented to sex with him because she thought he was straight. The gay man actually never released details of his sexuality either way and she never asked. Personally, I don't think that would be an incident of rape, but I do see it as an incident of fuzzy consent that could be hurtful. I mean, I am probably not the only gay man who has dated a woman while discovering my sexuality. And that has at least for me caused emotional pain for the women I had dated. Though I don't think having sex with any of them knowing I was probably gay would be rape.

    That's a different situation than when a contract for services is being confused with agreeing to have sex (outside of a contract situation). Law is all about nuance. The client is having sex. The escort is being paid to do a job. If there is no payment, the contract is null and void. And if there is no contract, there is no consent.

  2. And I don't suppose you'd care to address the substance of my argument? No, I guess not.

    You are welcome, I see you corrected your mistake, but kept the petty shot at @mike carey 's typo. And I already did address your argument, and you've already given it a thumbs down. We disagree on consent. And on the distinction between a contract for a service, and sex.

  3. This is a false equivalence of comic absurdity. There is nothing about fixing a car that can in any context be criminal, although doing it negligently could be criminal negligence. There are laws about consent in sexual intercourse and failing to obtain it or honour the conditions of consent is a criminal offence. A criminal trial determines whether the act in question was an offence proven beyond reasonable doubt to be one of which the defendant was guilty. The 'logocal conclusion' you sought to draw is completely bereft of logic.

     

    You can, and the court did. Whether you like that is not the question.

     

    And as an aside, it could not be fraud, that is obtaining money under false pretences, nobody did that.

    To me there are two sides to this coin. From the escorts side, the escort was contracted for a service. From the john's side, the john is having sex. Those are different things. Same act, two separate objectives.

     

    If the john doesn't pay the escort, then maybe in his fantasy world he really was having sex, and not paying for a service. Who knows? (Who cares?)

     

    However, if the escort doesn't get paid, the john has voided the contract for a service. And the 'sex' is no longer an agreed upon service, it's just rape.

     

    The escort didn't agree to have sex, he agreed to be paid for a service. No free samples were on offer.

  4. During this pandemic, it is annoying to have little to do. While staying at home, my boyfriend and I have had too much sex, once every day or more(1 or 2 times a week before). We are both in 50s, not strong, and we do feel a liitle change on our bodies, such as urinary frequency. The pandemic situation is getting better, but we seem to get addicted and cannot control our sex desire. What should we do? Is there a way to keep healthy with too much sex(food, medicine, excercise)?

    Doesn't sound excessive. Enjoy it. How much mental time is it taking up? Maybe that could be more of an issue?

  5. A maths question, well not actually, it's a random question.

     

    If you start at zero and spell every number as you count upwards, what is the last letter of the alphabet that you will use?

    Pondering. (Assuming English language and not Aussie here ...). How does an alphabet deal with an infinite never ending list of numbers? The answer I think is first mathematical, and then alphabetical. Or is it the other way around?

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